Species Hoarea ornithopifolia

For Sir Richard Colt Hoare (1758–1838), English baronet, antiquarian, archaeologist, artist and traveller. He inherited a large estate from his grandfather Henry Hoare, which enabled him to pursue his interests in archaeological studies and travel. He visited Europe in 1785 and 1788, as described in his Recollections Abroad (1815) and A Classical Tour through Italy and Sicily (1819). He also visited Wales and Ireland. He worked on the first recorded excavations at Stonehenge (with William Cunnington) in 1798 and 1810 and excavated 379 burial sites on Salisbury Plain. His two-volume book The Ancient History of Wiltshire (1812, 1821) outlined his findings. He became a Fellow of the Royal Society (1792) and the Society of Antiquaries of London.